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==References==
==References==
* When the Doctor is attacked by the [[Keller Machine]] he sees a [[War Machine]], a [[Cyberman]], a [[Dalek]] and a [[Zarbi]].
* When the Doctor is attacked by the [[Keller Machine]] he sees a [[War Machine]], a [[Cyberman]], a [[Dalek]], [[Zarbi]], a [[Sensorite]], [[Koquillion]], [[Slaar]] and a [[Silurian]].
* The Doctor can speak [[Mandarin]] and went on the [[Long March]] with [[Mao Tse-Tung]] and seems sympathetic towards him. He relives some of the fear that he felt when facing his many adversaries and his experience of seeing a world destroyed by flames. (This may well refer to [[Project Inferno]].)
* The Doctor can speak [[Mandarin]] and went on the [[Long March]] with [[Mao Tse-Tung]] and seems sympathetic towards him. He relives some of the fear that he felt when facing his many adversaries and his experience of seeing a world destroyed by flames. (This may well refer to [[Project Inferno]].)
*The Master's innermost fear appears as a giant, malignant version of the Doctor, filled with mocking laughter.
*The Master's innermost fear appears as a giant, malignant version of the Doctor, filled with mocking laughter.

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Synopsis

The Doctor and Jo visit Stangmoor Prison for a demonstration of the Keller Machine - a device claimed to be capable of extracting negative emotions from hardened criminals.

The Doctor's scepticism seems valid when a prisoner called Barnham collapses whilst undergoing the treatment.

The Brigadier is meanwhile in charge of security at a World Peace Conference, where documents go missing and the Chinese delegate dies in mysterious circumstances. Captain Yates is away on another mission, transporting a banned Thunderbolt missile across country to be destroyed. The Doctor joins the Brigadier at the conference and they foil an attempt by the Chinese delegate's aide, Captain Chin Lee, to kill the American delegate. Lee is under the hypnotic control of the Master - otherwise known as Professor Emil Keller.

The Master uses the evil impulses stored within the Keller Machine - actually the container for an alien mind parasite - to cause unrest at Stangmoor. He then enlists the convicts' aid to hijack the Thunderbolt missile, planning to use it to blow up the peace conference and start World War Three.

Shielded by Barnham, now immune to the effects of the parasite, the Doctor transports the Keller Machine to a nearby airfield where the missile is being held.

Using the Machine to keep the Master occupied, he reconnects the missile's auto-destruct circuit and gets clear just before the Brigadier triggers it. The parasite is presumed destroyed in the resulting explosion, but the Master escapes in a van, running Barnham down in the process.

Plot

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Cast

Crew

References

Story Notes

  • This is the first occurrence of subtitles on screen in Doctor Who, the only other time is in The Curse of Fenric.

Ratings

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Myths

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Location Filming

  • Location filming took place in Dover Castle in Kent.

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

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Continuity

  • The Doctor alludes to Inferno "I saw an entire world consumed by fire".
  • The Master's greatest fear (of the Doctor looming over him) becomes real in Last of the Time Lords.
  • UNIT runs the second World Peace Conference in Day of the Daleks.

DVD and Video Releases

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Target Novelisations

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